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dkms package

  1. Bug #247523
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 247523

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 247523] Re: Fails silently if kernel headers are not available

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:34:54AM -0000, Alberto Milone wrote:
> Are you suggesting that we let the system display a Debconf error screen
> if the DKMS autoinstaller fails? Or maybe something less intrusive?

I'm talking about the interaction of the init script, which is called by the
maintainer scripts, but also used on its own, so debconf may or may not be
appropriate here.

At the least, the init script should flag this as an error condition via
log_action_end_msg rather than success. Preferably, it should display the
precise error message in the startup log via log_failure_msg or similar.

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 - mdz